Microsoft's Xbox One Facts
Microsoft's Xbox One Facts
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| The Xbox One is unique because it offers voice recognition making it possible for users to tell the console to turn on or turn to TV, and many other commands. |
| The Xbox One has a built in Kinect, making it possible to control the with hand gestures. |
| The Kinect in the Xbox One is capable of using face identification to recognize different people. |
| The Kinect in the Xbox One is capable of seeing players in the dark and can see 6 people, unlike the old Kinect that could only see 2 people. |
| The Kinect in Xbox One is capable of identifying the person holding the controller, detecting a person's emotional state such as happy or sad, and detecting a person's heart rate. |
| Xbox One has an improved Skype version, which is also made by Microsoft. It is possible to Skype with the Xbox One even when gaming or watching TV. |
| The Xbox One runs off over 300,000 servers. This is equal to more than the number of servers used in the entire world back in 1999. |
| Gamers can record games and share them with the Xbox One with the Gamer DVR feature. |
| The Xbox One is able to download updates and install them automatically, saving time when a user wants to play and doesn't want to have to wait for updates to install as soon as they turn on the unit. |
| Microsoft pushes the buttons on new controllers 2 million times to test their durability. This is considered to be equal to about 7 years of play during typical use. |
| Microsoft's robot arm used to test the controller mimics and angry gamer to test its durability. |
| When trying to redesign the Xbox 360 controller for the Xbox One, Microsoft had more than 200 prototypes created. |
| With the Xbox One it is possible to have a split screen - which means one person can be watching a movie while another is gaming. |
| Xbox One can pair a gamer with another gamer of similar language, age, skill, and even how the gamer plays. |
| The Xbox One is playable offline but the console needs to connect to the internet at least every 24 hours or it won't function. |
| When the Xbox One was released on November 22, 2013 one million consoles were sold within the first day. |
| By December 11th, 2013 there had been 2 million units sold. By January 6, 2014, 3 million had sold. |
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